Principal Software Engineer, AI Tools and Security (Seattle)

Docker
Seattle, San Francisco
Workplace: RemoteFull timeUSD 232,000 - 319,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 12+ yearsSkills: ["Leadership","Mentorship","Communication","Collaboration","Problem-solving"]

Lead the technical direction of AI tools and security infrastructure, shaping product architecture for a secure, scalable Backend Gateway. Collaborate with Product, Design, and Security to deliver developer-friendly APIs, mentor engineers, and own the technical decisions in a remote-first, high-ownership team focused on performance, reliability, and security across cloud-native services.

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Docker
Docker
9 months ago

Principal Software Engineer, AI Tools and Security (Seattle)

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Job Summary

Lead the technical direction of AI tools and security infrastructure, shaping product architecture for a secure, scalable Backend Gateway. Collaborate with Product, Design, and Security to deliver developer-friendly APIs, mentor engineers, and own the technical decisions in a remote-first, high-ownership team focused on performance, reliability, and security across cloud-native services.
Location: Seattle, San Francisco
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Define the technical solution for a new product
  • •Help shape the product with peers in Product and Design
  • •Mentor other technical team members
  • •Be the technical point of contact for the team

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 232,000 - 319,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Remote WorkEquityParental LeaveTechnology StipendMedical Benefits

Key Requirements

  • •12+ years of backend engineering experience, including extensive work on production-grade, distributed systems at scale.
  • •Technical leadership across multiple teams or domains, with a proven ability to drive architectural vision, set technical direction, and influence long-term product strategy.
  • •Exceptional product and platform mindset—you think beyond implementation details to how technology shapes developer and business outcomes.
  • •Expertise in designing and evolving large-scale, cloud-native systems, with deep knowledge of distributed computing, service-oriented architecture, and performance optimization.
  • •Demonstrated experience building secure, resilient, and high-throughput backend services, with a strong grasp of reliability engineering principles (SLOs, observability, incident response)
Experience:12+ yearsAICloudDistributed systems
Skills:LeadershipMentorshipCommunicationCollaborationProblem-solving
Languages:English
Tech Stack:GoRustJavaC++KubernetesDockerAWSAzureGCPCI/CDObservability

Company Brief

Docker
Docker builds developer tools and a collaborative platform for building, sharing and running containerized applications, including Docker Desktop and Docker Hub, to simplify container workflows from code to cloud.
Industry: Developer Tools
Company Size: Large (251 to 1,000 employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Funding: Series C
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2013
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